Theater: Every generation has an image of Peter Pan, either Mary Martin, who originated the role in the 1954 Broadway musical, or such subsequent high fliers as Sandy Duncan or Cathy Rigby. We can now add Shanon Mari Mills to that list, for her energetic, athletic and full-voiced performance at The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton. She heads a lavish production directed by Michael … [Read more...]
Theatre at Arts Garage’s new boss plans move to edgier material
Get ready for some changes at the theater in Delray Beach’s Arts Garage. For starters, the storefront performance venue underneath a municipal parking garage is opening a black box second space, where two of the company’s four plays will be presented. But more importantly, there has been a changing of the guard, with Keith Garsson taking over as producing director of the … [Read more...]
NPR’s Ulaby to speak on arts journalism; Maltz launches young professional training
FORT LAUDERDALE — Neda Ulaby, arts and culture reporter for National Public Radio, will speak June 24 to the closing session of the Broward County Cultural Divison’s Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute. Ulaby, whose talk is called “Arts Journalism in a Fractured Cultureverse,” reports on arts, digital media, entertainment and cultural trends for NPR’s Arts Desk. Born in Amman, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 27-29
Music: The Argentine-born violinist Tomás Cotik has had a busy career in South Florida since earning his doctorate at the University of Miami, including sitting second-chair violin in the Delray String Quartet. Among his fields of study is the music of Franz Schubert, and he and pianist Tao Lin have just released a second disc of the composer’s music for violin and piano, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: March 7-8
Film: Uruguay’s official submission for the foreign-language Oscar this year and an audience favorite at the recent Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, Mr. Kaplan, has returned for a commercial run at Boca Raton’s Living Room Theaters and other venues in the area. It is that tricky commodity — a dark comedy with a Holocaust theme — but it works, largely because of the assured work … [Read more...]
Boca’s arts festival bets on Bernstein to start, Beethoven for the closer
By Dale King Not all that ago, the Festival of the Arts Boca ended its weekly run with a gala performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, led by violinist Itzhak Perlman. This year, for the ninth version of the performing arts-and-literature gathering that commandeers the west end of Mizner Park, Beethoven’s Ninth will again bring the festival — at least the musical events — … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Jan. 16-18
Theater: The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton does not go in for fresh directorial concepts in its musicals like the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, but it has recently taken to injecting Broadway veterans into its productions, like Walter Charles and Lee Roy Reams as nightclub owner Georges and his gay partner and drag queen headliner Albin in La Cage aux Folles. That is reason enough to see … [Read more...]
2014-15 arts preview: The season in Miami art
By Michael Mills Situated, as it is, at the confluence of Caribbean and Latin American cultures, the greater Miami area can’t help being the epicenter of the South Florida art world. Broward and Palm Beach counties may have increasingly vibrant art communities of their own, but Miami-Dade has Art Basel/Miami Beach, as well as the Wynwood Arts District. Here are some expected … [Read more...]
2014-15 arts preview: The season in Broward County art
By Michael Mills For years the Broward County art community has been eclipsed by Miami-Dade and even Palm Beach County, with their glitzy, high-profile events such as Art Basel Miami Beach and Art Palm Beach. Although Broward doesn’t have a Wynwood-style concentration of galleries and studios, it now has pockets of comparable art activity like FATVillage, North Beach, … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Oct. 10-12
Theater: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anyone to realize you,” says Emily Webb in one of the more famous speeches from Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town. While current taste might find it too sentimental, Wilder’s play has never gone out of fashion, and it remains a classic of the American stage. Its story of nothing simpler than days in the life of a fictional New … [Read more...]